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Stéphane Séjourné meets Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv during first official visit abroad and says Ukraine ‘will remain France’s priority’
U.S. President Joe Biden said during a press briefing on Saturday that Republicans will have “an awful lot to pay for” if they don’t help pass military aid for Ukraine.
Republicans in the U.S. Senate blocked a supplemental funding bill that included $61 billion in aid for Ukraine in a procedural vote held on Dec. 6. Republicans in both chambers of Congress had demanded stricter border regulations in exchange for their support, and they said the bill failed to meet their requirements. Ahead of the December 6 vote, Biden had delivered an address to urge Congress to pass the bill, warning that a failure to act would only benefit Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president.
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